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To: Gauguin who wrote (41450)	11/10/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Like...Wow!!!.... SPLASH!!! Pod Sister

To: Gauguin who wrote (41450)	11/10/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Not adequate to reply to the beauty of the eternal divers, but simple statements of fact: I like to swim, and can tell you that some swimmers still wear caps, but they don't seem to wear the kind you describe anymore, the ones made of thick rubber with the chin straps. Well, they do, older Asian women do, Koreans, I think, because they are tall and broad-shouldered, and they wear slippers made out of the same material, to walk around in when they are not swimming. Yellow, white, green, pink, aqua. But American women are more likely to wear caps made out of something thinner, and stretchier, without a chin strap, dark red and dark blue patterns. Even men do, a few of them. If you swim laps regularly, the chlorine in the water messes up your hair. I used to swim laps several times a week, but got out of the habit when I quit exercising after I got sick. I bought myself a new face mask but it's still in the box, sitting on the table by the front door. The Asian women and the American women swim laps differently. The Asian women swim a couple of laps, slowly, and then hang on the side and rest, and then swim a couple more laps, and rest a little bit, this goes on for a long time. The American women, and even more, the American men, dive in, swim very fast, do their mile and get it done and get out of there. I swim slowly, myself, but I don't stop until I get bored, I wear a face mask and use a snorkle, and look at the things floating on the bottom of the pool (bandaids, algae) and count until I've done a mile, or can't stand the boredom anymore.

To: Gauguin who wrote (41450)	11/10/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 71178

That post is a saver, Gaugie. Wow.

To: Gauguin who wrote (41450)	11/10/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Speaking of the wisdom of generations not being passed on, what were the games we used to play when we were herds of kids roaming our neighborhoods on warm summer nights? What did we used to do when we weren't wasting time with a stupid television? Baseball, using sewer lids as bases? Hide and go seek? Girls played jacks and other inscrutable games. All I know is we were blissfully free of the evil presence of the adult world with our impromptu games. The poor kids of today are stuck with soccer league and other adult-monitored horrors.